Book Details

ISBN 139781849693141

Paperback268 pages

Book Description

Adobe Muse is an exciting new tool from the world’s foremost design software company which allows users to create beautiful and fully functioning websites without writing any code. It provides graphic designers the power to use their print design skills over the Web.

This book will help web designers as well as graphic designers to master Adobe Muse quickly. It will provide step-by-step instructions that guide you through building a website with Adobe Muse.

"Learning Adobe Muse" will teach you how to plan, design and publish websites using Adobe Muse. It starts by covering the tools and interface of the program and moves on to the concepts you’ll need to understand for laying out your web pages. You’ll learn how to format text using reusable styles, add images, create a clean navigation system, and add interactive elements such as panels and slideshows to your pages and all this without writing a single line of code!

By the end of the book you will have created a smartlydesigned, fully-functioning website.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Welcome to Muse

What is this Muse you speak of?

Summary

Chapter 2: The Muse Workflow

Print workflow versus web workflow

The Muse workflow

Summary

Chapter 3: Planning Your Site

Page layouts

What appears on a typical web page?

Wireframes

Wireframes with Muse

Site structure with Plan view

Working with wireframes

Where are the files generated by Muse?

Exercise

Summary

Chapter 4: Powerful Pages

Pages

Master pages

Working with pages within your site

Editing page properties

Creating links

Summary

Chapter 5: The Joy of Rectangles

Working with rectangles

Adding color – fills and strokes

Adding effects to rectangles

Change stacking order of rectangles

Creating a mixture of round and square corners

Creating full width rectangles

Summary

Chapter 6: Typography, Muse, and the Web

The power of text

Creating text frames

Editing text

Creating and applying paragraph styles

Creating and applying character styles

Headings

Creating headings

Metadata – the hidden text on your page

Summary

Chapter 7: Working with Images

Hello web-friendly images

Choosing the best file format

Web-safe colors – a thing of the past?

Getting images onto your page

Adding a logo

Using a tiled image as a background

Using a photographic image as a background image

Pinning an image

Taking care of site files with the Assets panel

Group objects together to work with them as a single object

Summary

Chapter 8: Customizing with Widgets—Menus and Panels

Working with widgets

How menu widgets work

Tabbed Panels

Deleting a panel

Summary

Chapter 9: More Widgets—Compositions and Slideshows

Composition widgets

Slideshow widgets

Adding a Google Map to your page

Adding a Twitter (or any other type of) feed to your site

Summary

Chapter 10: Muse, Meet the Adobe Creative Suite

Muse, Meet the Adobe Creative Suite

Summary

Chapter 11: Previewing and Testing Your Site

Previewing pages

Export HTML for browser testing

What to test for?

Summary

Chapter 12: Publishing Your Site

Adobe ID

Publishing a temporary site

Editing and updating a site

Upgrading and launching

Alternative hosting

Summary

What You Will Learn

Plan a website from scratch.

Create a functioning website prototype

Use master pages to apply a common look and feel across the website

Apply effects such as drop shadows, bevel, and glow

Add interactive elements to your site including an image slideshow

Design tips and advice for new designers and graphic designers moving from print to the web

Preview and test your website

Publish your site with Business Catalyst or a third party hosting provider

Authors

Jennifer Farley

Jennifer Farley has over 12 years experience working in the graphic and web design industry. In 2002, she became a full time educator, teaching Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Design Theory. She runs her own design business, called Laughing Lion Design but now divides her time equally between teaching design and freelance illustration work.

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